Two men sit facing each other on a television set; one, a prominent and accomplished newscaster on a global news network station. The other, a prominent and accomplished actor, admired for his consummate acting career.
A series of questions follow after a brief introduction about the actor's television series which poses questions about our universe and life on this planet. The segment from one of his shows obviously was selected to make a segway for one particular question. The questions, coming from the newscaster host have a certain tone to them. But the response the guest actor gives aren't what the newscaster host expects to hear, and it catches him off guard. So, he skips over the rest of his interview and moves directly to the end of the interview where a planned surprise of presenting a gift with the recognition of the actor's birthday is performed and the interview ends.
As you watch this interview you'll notice a date stamp is in the upper left corner of the screen, so we can be certain of when this was - during the Obama administration, revealing the tone the newscaster was presenting in his questions is clearly promoting the president's agenda regarding race. But when the actor replies with answers to his questions about the underlying concept of that agenda, things get a bit uncomfortable.
I share this because this interview clearly reveals a profound truth; that your genetic makeup has nothing to do with your personal ability to succeed in life, and, just because you have a particular ethnicity in common doesn't mean that your life experience, or personal philosophy, will be alike or in agreement on the premise of the question asked. If you watch carefully and with full attention throughout the interview, it will become rather obvious that the interviewer didn't do his homework on his interviewee.
I would suspect that the newscaster doing this interview would just as soon prefer that the Internet, and its instant ability to archive in multiple places at once, never existed.
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